Birkenauerhof
The Birkenauerhof is a historic farm estate on the district of the village of Weiler, which is incorporated into Sinsheim, in the Rhein-Neckar district .
geography
The Birkenauerhof is located about one and a half kilometers northwest of Weiler in the Ilvesbach valley below the Steinsberg.
history
The Hofgut was already mentioned in the early 17th century and its history is closely linked to the hamlet of Weiler and Steinsberg Castle . In 1627 Johann Jakob Eberstein leased the farm to Michael Vahle. In 1628 brothers from the wealthy family of the Lords of Venningen zu Eichtersheim took over the estate. During the Thirty Years' War the farm was devastated and then, like the nearby Immelhauser Hof, repopulated with Mennonites who had fled Switzerland and who had recruited the landlords in Alsace. The elector patronized the Mennonites, who achieved rich agricultural yields, as they were "known to be better workers and farmers than the other subjects", but part of the population hosted them out of resentment. After the emigration of the tenant Heinrich Bär, the estate came to the Musselmann family, who managed it for several generations. In the late 20th century, the farm was mainly fattening pigs and growing sugar beets and grain .
literature
- Käthe Zimmermann-Ebert: Large district town Sinsheim - around the Steinsberg. Sinsheim 1990
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 16.9 ″ N , 8 ° 51 ′ 45.1 ″ E